Brighten your garden with the vivid color and compact beauty of Magic Carpet Spirea, a dwarf flowering shrub prized for its brilliant golden foliage and vibrant red new growth. This eye-catching spirea creates a colorful display throughout the growing season, with fiery red leaf tips contrasting beautifully against bright golden leaves. In early summer, clusters of soft pink flowers add even more charm and attract pollinators to the garden.

Its naturally compact rounded form makes Magic Carpet an excellent choice for borders, foundation plantings, mass plantings, rock gardens, and patio containers. Hardy, low maintenance, and easy to grow, this colorful shrub delivers long-lasting landscape interest in a manageable size perfect for smaller gardens and modern landscapes. These healthy plants are shipped established in 4 inch nursery pots and are ready to thrive in the landscape.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Magic Carpet Spirea
✔️ 4 inch pot plant
✔️ Dwarf golden foliage flowering shrub
✔️ Healthy, rooted landscape plant
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information

• Common Name: Magic Carpet Spirea
• Botanical Name: Spiraea japonica ‘Magic Carpet’
• Plant Type: Deciduous flowering shrub
• Growth Stage: Established potted plant
• Sun Requirements: Full sun
• Soil: Well-draining soil; adaptable to many soil types
• Watering: Moderate; drought tolerant once established
• Mature Height: Approximately 1–2 feet
• Mature Width: Approximately 1–2 feet
• Growth Rate: Moderate
• USDA Zones: 4–8
• Container Friendly: Yes

Care Tip: Plant in full sun for the brightest foliage color and strongest flowering display. Light pruning after flowering encourages dense fresh growth and maintains its compact shape.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.